Dear
Everyone,
LEWES
ARMS FOLK CLUB, SATURDAY 29 MARCH: ADAM & DIRK CAMPBELL (www.dirkcampbell.co.uk/home.html
) Young Adam & his father
play keyboard, guitar, & a huge variety of wind instruments & bagpipes
from round the world. Admission £4.
JOHN
HARVEY TUNES SESSION, TUESDAY 1st. APRIL 8.00 - 11.00 PM
John
Harvey Tavern, Bear Yard, Lewes BN7 2AN (opposite Harveys Brewery in Cliffe
High Street)
If
you'd like to lead one of these sessions, which are always on the first
Tuesday of the month, let me know. Alan Day will lead in
October.
TREVOR
ARMS TUNES SESSION, SUNDAY 6TH. APRIL, 3.30 – 5.30
PM
The
Trevor Arms, Glynde, East Sussex BN8 6SS (next to Glynde railway
station)
Meic
Goodyear leads on fiddle once public mastication has ceased.
CONCERTINAS
ANONYMOUS
LEWES
ARMS CLUB-ROOM, MONDAY
7TH APRIL, 8.00 - 11.00 PM
This
is Bryan Creer's regular free session for concertina players of all systems
and abilities. It returns to the first Monday of the month following the Lewes
Arms pantomime (which raised £2,000 this year for the Sasha Roberts
Scholarship Fund). What happens depends largely on who turns up, but there's
usually some part-playing at some stage and a few session tunes get severely
beaten up.
LEWES
FAVOURITES ENGLISH TUNES PRACTICE SESSION, LEWES ARMS CLUB-ROOM, WEDNESDAY 16TH. APRIL, 8.00 -
11.00 PM
This
is the monthly free practice for anyone wanting to practice tunes popular in
local English sessions on any instrument. Andy Warburton has compiled two
unbound supplements, one of a further 33 trendy tunes and another with a small
selection of Scan Tester’s material; both are available to people coming to
the practice sessions for the not unreasonable sum of £30p, but limited to one
copy per person. They can also be downloaded from the Lewes Arms Folk Club
website.
MARTIN
CARTHY: WORKSHOP ON GUITAR & SONG, LEWES ARMS, SATURDAY 19TH.
APRIL
The
workshop is sold out but we are keeping a waiting list. A few advance tickets
for Martin’s evening performance at the Lewes Arms are still available through
the website or from me at £8 each.
HARVEYS
BEER RESTORATION DAY AT THE LEWES ARMS, SATURDAY 26TH.
APRIL
This
is the first anniversary of the restoration of Harveys beers to the Lewes Arms
following an epic struggle with Greene King which attracted international
media coverage, has already been the subject of two academic theses, and will
no doubt become a Hollywood blockbuster with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Miles
Jenner and Johnny Depp as Crink. The Lewes Arms Folk Club will be celebrating
with an evening of music on the subject of beer; let me know in advance what
songs or tunes you'd like to do so that I can put a programme together and
avoid duplication.
In
the late afternoon there will be a relay race in which two teams, Team
Bitter and Team Old, pass a pint from hand to hand from the brewery in Cliffe
High Street to the Lewes Arms. There will probably be a bit of music at the
start and finish, and quite possibly as the pints progress up the hill as
well.
ENCIERRO
DOS ANIMALES PANTAMIMOS, LEWES
ARMS, EASTER SUNDAY
This
has made the front page of today's Sussex Express. A full pictorial record can
be found on Roz South's website http://rozsouth.zenfolio.com/p589263004/. Steady
yourself before looking too closely at the hippo. Penny Allen suggests
inviting some Morris beasts next year.
Tootle
pip,
Valmai